Daniel holland stubbs



(No Model.) 8 1). S'TUBBS.

RBIN HOLDER,"

No. 3 81 ,292. PatentedAp1 17,1888,

UNITED"; STATES PATENT O FICE. I

DANIEL HOLLAND s'rUBBs OF PRES'GOT, COUNTY or LANCASTER, ene:

" 'I1AND, AssieNoR TO THOMAS BILSBOROUGH, or SAME PLAc-s.

RElN-HOLDER.

flsrscrrrearron forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,292, dated April 11, 1888. I

' Application filed February 11, 1888. Serial No. 264,380. N6 model.) 7 V To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL HOLLAND STUBBs, asubject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Prescot,'in the county of Lancaster, England, Clerk in Holy Orders, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reinor Strap Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its principal object a little apparatus for holding reins when the driver wishes to leave the box. It is best described'by aid of the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is anend View with front plate removed; Fig. 2, aside view. Fig. 3 is an'end View of a modification.-

In the drawings, Ais a fiat plate,

,ona shank, B, which is fixed into asocket on the splash-board. In place of this shank and socket the apparatus can be fixed, by

means of a flange(shown in dotted lines cularin cross-section. The two sides, however, are parallel to each other, while the top E is inclined at a small angle to bed A. This cover has a terminal cover-plate at each end, the smaller, F,.being preferably cast in one with thecover D, the larger end plate, G, be-

forth in Fig. 3; but I- do-not recommend this arrangement, and in cases of very broad straps would prefer two, three, or more balls held in a succession of covers, D, cast together in a row.

R is a pair reins, and the dotted line S is,

the ball in another position.

-tus, he puts the reins into the groove T, at the same timepulling hard on the horses.

prefer-f ably beveled down at each end and supported ing screwed on 'by screws H H after the ball 'Whenthe driver. wishes to use' theappara- This at once draws the ball up to the (lend. The reins fall at once into the box upon'bedplate A, and are prevented. from falling out I again by the projection Owhen the driver re-' '6 laxes the reins. The horses pulling them forward draws the ball-I into the position'shown' in Fig. 2, or to some other point between the position S and that one indenting the-reins, as

set forth in the drawings, and thus holding -6 5 them tight. The moment, however, that the driver wishes to'release them, he pulls, on the reins, theballI runsback into the/position S, or nearly so, and the reins, being th'us freed from the ball, can be lifted out over the pro-.170 jection G and used in the ordinary manner.

I am aware that a'rein-holder has been patented in which a ball mounted loosely within a tapering box or casing. and projecting through the side thereof is adapted tobear 75 upon the reins and hold themtightlywhenl' pulled in one direction and to such acon-- struction I make no broad claim.

,1 claim as my invention- 1. In combination with a plate, as A, a hol- 8e low box overhanging the plate and open on its J lowers'ide, a rolling device, L'within the box, and a flange. or" rib, C, along the outer'edge-of the plate A, as and for the purposeset forth.

' 2. In combination with a plate,.an over- 85 hanginghollow box open.on its underside and I I provided with an inclined top, a rolling device, as I, placed within the box and projecting through the opening therein, and supports ,or' p p v guides for said device arranged parallelkwith' o the inclined top. 1 j

'3. In'combination with a plate, asA, an overhanging hollow box open onits under side and providedwith re-entering, or inwardly; projecting edges, and a roller or'ball project,- ingthrou-gh theopening in the box and supported by the inwardly projecting edges thereof..

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificationin the presence of two suboo.

scribingwitnesses g V Di -HOLLAND 'STUBBS.

Witnesses: I

W P. THOMPSON H. P. SHOOBRIDGE. 

